Photo by Pulak Viscardi

 

Sri Chinmoy, eating out with the boys at a New York diner.

 

Photo by Maral Siegel

 

Captain Sri Chinmoy walks across the tarmac of New Haven Airport to the stationary plane before it becomes airborne. In a few minutes, he will lift the twin-engine Beechcraft into the air with a modified standing calf-raise machine — a total weight of 13,040 lbs.